REH Was Right: Babylonian Edition

Ancient Babylon had an advanced form of mathematics we had thought was invented by Pythagoras. 

3 comments:

james said...

https://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2017/08/babylonian-trig.html

Grim said...

Heh. Scooped by myself! But it’s still cool even if the last four years had driven it out of my memory. :)

David Foster said...

The Babylonians also had a Base 60 number system, which seems to live on in our units for time and navigation.